US6471967B1 - Recombinant intracellular pathogen vaccines and methods for use - Google Patents
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- the present invention generally relates to immunotherapeutic agents an d vaccines against intracellular pathogenic organisms such as bacteria, protozoa, viruses and fingi. More specifically, unlike prior art vaccines and immunotherapeutic agents based upon pathogenic subunits, killed pathogens and attenuated natural pathogens, the present invention uses recombinant attenuated pathogens, or closely related species, that express and secrete immunogenic determinants of a selected pathogen stimulating an effective immune response in mammalian hosts.
- the immunostimulatory vaccines and immunotherapeutics of the present invention are derived from recombinant attenuated intracellular pathogens, or closely related species, that express immunogenic determinants in situ.
- Intracellular bacteria have proven to be particularly intractable in the face of therapeutic or prophylactic measures.
- Intracellular bacteria including the genus mycobacterium and the genus Legionella, complete all or part of their lifecycle within the cells of the infected host organism rather than extracellularly.
- intracellular bacteria are responsible for millions of deaths each year and untold suffering. Tuberculosis is the leading cause of death from a single disease agent worldwide, with 10 million new cases and 2.9 million deaths every year.
- intracellular bacteria are responsible for millions of cases of leprosy.
- debilitating diseases transmitted by intracellular agents include cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis, American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease), listeriosis, toxoplasmosis, histoplasmosis, trachoma, psittacosis, Q-fever, and legionellosis.
- Chos disease American trypanosomiasis
- listeriosis toxoplasmosis
- histoplasmosis histoplasmosis
- trachoma psittacosis
- Q-fever and legionellosis
- M. tuberculosis is illustrative of the teachings of the present invention and is in no way intended to limit the scope of the present invention to the treatment of M. tuberculosis.
- teachings herein are not limited in any way to the treatment of tubercular infections.
- this invention may be used to advantageously provide safe and effective vaccines and immunotherapeutic agents against any pathogenic agent by using recombinant attenuated pathogens, or recombinant avirulent organisms, to express, and of equal importance to release the immunologically important proteins of the pathogenic organism.
- M. tuberculosis Currently it is believed that approximately one-third of the world's population is infected by M. tuberculosis resulting in millions of cases of pulmonary tuberculosis annually. More specifically, human pulmonary tuberculosis primarily caused by M. tuberculosis is a major cause of death in developing countries. Capable of surviving inside macrophages and monocytes, M. tuberculosis may produce a chronic intracellular infection. M. tuberculosis is relatively successful in evading the normal defenses of the host organism by concealing itself within the cells primarily responsible for the detection of foreign elements and subsequent activation of the immune system.
- tuberculosis resistance to one or more drugs was reported in 36 of the 50 United States. In New York City, one-third of all cases tested was resistant to one or more major drugs. Though non-resistant tuberculosis can be cured with a long course of antibiotics, the outlook regarding drug resistant strains is bleak. Patients infected with strains resistant to two or more major antibiotics have a fatality rate of around 50%. Accordingly, safe and effective vaccines against such varieties of M. tuberculosis are sorely needed.
- M. tuberculosis When M. tuberculosis is not controlled by the infected subject it often results in the extensive degradation of lung tissue.
- lesions are usually formed in the lung as the tubercle bacilli reproduce within alveolar or pulmonary macrophages. As the organisms multiply, they may spread through the lymphatic system to distal lymph nodes and through the blood stream to the lung apices, bone marrow, kidney and meninges surrounding the brain.
- characteristic granulomatous lesions or tubercles are produced in proportion to the severity of the infection. These lesions consist of epithelioid cells bordered by monocytes, lymphocytes and fibroblasts. In most instances a lesion or tubercle eventually becomes necrotic and undergoes caseation (conversion of affected tissues into a soft cheesy substance).
- M. tuberculosis is a significant pathogen
- other species of the genus Mycobacterium also cause disease in animals including man and are clearly within the scope of the present invention.
- M. bovis is closely related to M. tuberculosis and is responsible for tubercular infections in domestic animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep, horses, dogs and cats.
- M. bovis may infect humans via the intestinal tract, typically from the ingestion of raw milk. The localized intestinal infection eventually spreads to the respiratory tract and is followed shortly by the classic symptoms of tuberculosis.
- Another important pathogenic vector of the genus Mycobacterium is M. leprae that causes millions of cases of the ancient disease leprosy.
- M. kansasii M. aviuim intracellulare
- M. fortuitum M. marinum
- M. chelonei M. scrofulaceum.
- the pathogenic mycobacterial species frequently exhibit a high degree of homology in their respective DNA and corresponding protein sequences and some species, such as M. tuberculosis and M. bovis, are highly related.
- the guinea pig model closely resembles the human pathology of the disease in many respects. Accordingly, it is well understood by those skilled in the art that it is appropriate to extrapolate the guinea pig model of this disease to humans and other mammals.
- guinea pigs are susceptible to tubercular infection with low doses of the aerosolized human pathogen M. tuberculosis. Unlike humans where the initial infection is usually controlled, guinea pigs consistently develop disseminated disease upon exposure to the aerosolized pathogen, facilitating subsequent analysis.
- both guinea pigs and humans display cutaneous delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions characterized by the development of a dense mononuclear cell induration or rigid area at the skin test site.
- the characteristic tubercular lesions of humans and guinea pigs exhibit similar morphology including the presence of Langhans giant cells.
- any protection conferred in experiments using this animal model provides a strong indication that the same protective immunity may be generated in man or other less susceptible mammals. Accordingly, for purposes of explanation only and not for purposes of limitation, the present invention will be primarily demonstrated in the exemplary context of guinea pigs as the mammalian host. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention may be practiced with other mammalian hosts including humans and domesticated animals.
- any animal or human infected with a pathogenic organism and, in particular, an intracellular organism presents a difficult challenge to the host immune system. While many infectious agents may be effectively controlled by the humoral response and corresponding production of protective antibodies, these mechanisms are primarily effective only against those pathogens located in the body's extracellular fluid. In particular, opsonizing antibodies bind to extracellular foreign agents thereby rendering them susceptible to phagocytosis and subsequent intracellular killing. Yet this is not the case for other pathogens. For example, previous studies have indicated that the humoral immune response does not appear to play a significant protective role against infections by intracellular bacteria such as M. tuberculosis. However, the present invention may generate a beneficial humoral response to the target pathogen and, as such, its effectiveness is not limited to any specific component of the stimulated immune response.
- antibody mediated defenses seemingly do not prevent the initial infection of intracellular pathogens and are ineffectual once the bacteria are sequestered within the cells of the host.
- antibodies can permeate the extracellular fluid and blood, but have difficulty migrating across the lipid membranes of cells.
- the production of opsonizing antibodies against bacterial surface structures may actually assist intracellular pathogens in entering the host cell.
- any effective prophylactic measure against intracellular agents such as Mycobacterium, should incorporate an aggressive cell-mediated immune response component leading to the rapid proliferation of antigen specific lymphocytes that activate the compromised phagocytes or cytotoxically eliminate them.
- inducing a cell-mediated immune response does not equal the induction of protective immunity.
- cell-mediated immunity may be a prerequisite to protective immunity, the production of vaccines in accordance with the teachings of the present invention requires animal based challenge studies.
- This cell-mediated immune response generally involves two steps.
- the initial step, signaling that the cell is infected, is accomplished by special molecules (major histocompatibility or MHC molecules) which deliver pieces of the pathogen to the surface of the cell.
- MHC molecules major histocompatibility molecules
- Their presentation to T-cells stimulates the immune system of the host to eliminate the infected host cell or induces the host cell to eradicate any bacteria residing within.
- BCG vaccine an essential factor in reducing tuberculosis worldwide, especially in developing countries.
- BCG vaccine confers cell-mediated immunity against an attenuated mycobacterium that is immunologically related to M. tuberculosis.
- the resulting immune response should prevent primary tuberculosis.
- latent infections cannot occur and disease reactivation is avoided.
- BCG vaccines are provided as lyphophilzed cultures that are re-hydrated with sterile diluent immediately before administration.
- the BCG vaccine is given at birth, in infancy, or in early childhood in countries that practice BCG vaccination, including developing and developed countries.
- Adult visitors to endemic regions who may have been exposed to high doses of infectious mycobacteria may receive BCG as a prophylactic providing they are skin test non-reactive.
- Adverse reactions to the vaccine are rare and are generally limited to skin ulcerations and lymphadenitis near the injection site. However, in spite of these rare adverse reactions, the BCG vaccine has an unparalleled history of safety with over three billion doses having been administered worldwide since 1930.
- Vaccines prepared from selected M. tuberculosis extracellular products are currently being optimized for use as human prophylactic therapies. Protein cocktails and individual protein preparations using both recombinant as well as naturally expressed proteins are being studied. One goal of these ongoing studies is to maximize the base immune response through optimum immunogen (protein) presentation. To date over 100 different preparations have been made including 38 different protein combinations, 26 different adjuvants, 10 different protein concentrations and seven different dosing regimens. The candidate vaccine proteins have also been coupled to non- M. tuberculosis proteins including bovine serum albumin, Legionella sp. major secretory protein, and tetanus toxoid.
- U.S. Pat. No. 5,830,475 also discloses theoretical mycobacterial vaccines used to express fusion proteins.
- the DNA encoding for these fusion proteins resides in extrachromasomal plasmids under the control of mycobacterial heat shock protein and stress protein promoters.
- the vaccines disclosed are intended to elicit immune responses in non-human animals for the purpose of producing antibodies thereto and not shown to prevent intracellular pathogen diseases in mammals.
- the '475 patent does not disclose recombinant vaccinating agents that use protein specific promoters to express extracellular non-fusion proteins.
- the present inventors propose, without limitation, that major extracellular non-fusion proteins of intracellular pathogens may be important immunoprotective molecules.
- First extracellular non-fusion proteins by virtue of their release by the pathogen into the intracellular milieu of the host cell, are available for processing and presentation to the immune system as fragments bound to MHC molecules on the host cell surface. These peptide-MHC complexes serve to alert the immune system to the presence within the host cell of an otherwise hidden invader, enabling the immune system to mount an appropriate anti-microbial attack against the invader.
- Second, effective immunization with extracellular proteins is able to induce a population of immune cells that recognize the same peptide-MHC complexes at some future time when the complexes are displayed on host cells invaded by the relevant intracellular pathogen.
- the immune cells are thus able to target the infected host cells and either activate them with cytokines, thereby enabling them to restrict growth of the intracellular pathogen, or lyse them, thereby denying the pathogen the intracellular milieu in which it thrives.
- the major ones, i.e., those produced most abundantly, will figure most prominently as immunoprotective molecules since they would generally provide the richest display of peptide-MHC complexes to the immune system
- the present invention accomplishes the above-described and other objects by providing a new class of vaccines and immunotherapeutics and methods for treating and preventing intracellular pathogen diseases in mammals.
- intracellular pathogen vaccines and immunotherapeutics have been prepared from the intracellular pathogen itself or a closely related species. These old vaccine models were composed of the entire microorganism or subunits thereof.
- the first, and currently only available vaccine, for Mycobacterium tuberculosis is an attenuated live vaccine made from the closely related intracellular pathogen M. bovis.
- M. bovis intracellular pathogen
- the present inventors have discovered that specific extracellular products of intracellular pathogens that are secreted into growth media can be used to illicit protective immune responses in mammals either as individual subunits, or in subunit combinations. However, these subunit vaccines have not proven to be superior to the original attenuated vaccine derived from M. bovis.
- the present invention details vaccines and immunotherapeutics composed of recombinant attenuated intracellular pathogens (vaccinating agents) that have been transformed to express the extracellular protein(s) (recombinant immunogenic antigens) of another or same intracellular pathogen.
- the vaccines of the present invention are made using recombinant strains of the Bacille Calmette and Guérin, or BCG.
- BCG Bacille Calmette and Guérin
- the recombinant BCG expresses major extracellular proteins of pathogenic mycobacteria including, but not limited to, M. tuberculosis, M. leprae and M. bovis, to name but a few.
- the major extracellular proteins expressed by the recombinant BCG include, but are not limited to, the 12 kDa, 14 kDa, 16 kDa, 23 kDa, 23.5 kDa, 30 kDa, 32A kDa, 32B kDa, 45 kDa, 58 kDa, 71 kDa, 80 kDa, and 110 kDa of Mycobacterium sp. and respective analogs, homologs and subunits thereof including recombinant non-fusion proteins, fusion proteins and derivatives thereof.
- fusion proteins are defined to include, but not limited to, the products of two or more coding sequences from different genes that have been cloned together and that, after translation, form a single polypeptide sequence.
- the present invention also describes recombinant attenuated intracellular pathogen vaccinating agents that over express non-fusion proteins from at least one other intracellular pathogen. This is accomplished by using extrachromosomal nucleic acids to express at least one recombinant immunogenic antigen gene and placing this gene(s) under the control of non-heat shock gene promoters or non-stess protein gene promoters, preferably protein-specific promoter sequences. Consequently, vaccines are provided having non-fusion, recombinant immunogenic antigens expressed in greater quantities than possible when genes encoding for recombinant immunogenic antigens are stably integrated into the vaccinating agent's genomic DNA. As a result, intracellular pathogen vaccines having surprisingly superior specificity and potency than existing subunit or attenuated intracellular pathogen vaccines are provided.
- a partial list of the many intracellular pathogens that may be used as the attenuated vaccinating agents and/or the source of the recombinant immunogenic antigens includes, but is not limited to, Mycobacterium bovis, M. tuberculosis, M. leprae, M. kasasii, M. avium, Mycobacterium sp., Legionella pneumophila, L. longbeachae, L.
- a recombinant BCG expressing the 30 kDa major extracellular protein of M. tuberculosis is administered to mammals using intradermal inoculations.
- the vaccines of the present invention may be administered using any approach that will result in the appropriate immune response including, but not limited to, subcutaneous, intramuscular, intranasal, intraperitoneal, oral, or inhalation.
- the mammals were challenged with an infectious M. tuberculosis aerosol.
- Mammals receiving the vaccine of the present invention were remarkably disease free as compared to mammals receiving BCG alone, the major extracellular protein alone, or any combinations thereof
- FIG. 1 depicts Coomassie blue stained gels labeled 1 illustrating the secretion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis recombinant 30 kDa by transformed strains of BCG from culture filtrates.
- FIG. 2 graphically depicts the results from two experiments labeled 2 and 2 b designed to compare skin tests results of guinea pigs inoculated with the recombinant BCG vaccine expressing the 30 kDa major extracellular protein of M. tuberculosis, with BCG alone, with the recombinant 30 kDa protein alone, or with a sham vaccine.
- FIG. 3 graphically depicts the weight change in guinea pigs labeled 3 and 3 b following post immunization challenge with M. tuberculosis.
- FIG. 4 graphically depicts Colony Forming Units (CFU) of infectious M. tuberculosis recovered from guinea pigs' lungs following post immunization challenge with M. tuberculosis.
- CFU Colony Forming Units
- FIG. 4 b graphically depicts Colony Forming Units (CFU) of infectious M. tuberculosis recovered from guinea pigs' spleens following post immunization challenge with M. tuberculosis.
- CFU Colony Forming Units
- FIG. 5 graphically depicts the skin test response of guinea pigs to sham vaccine, BCG alone and BCG administered with recombinant 30 kDa of M. tuberculosis.
- the present invention is directed generally to vaccines and immunotherapeutics for treating and preventing infections in humans and animals caused by intracellular pathogens. Specifically, the present invention is directed at optimizing intracellular pathogen antigen presentation to enable the immunotherapeutic and/or vaccine recipient to generate the maximum immune response to important therapeutic and prophylactic proteins.
- the present inventors through years of research and experimentation, have surprisingly discovered that successful therapy and prophylaxis of intracellular pathogen infections using extracellular proteins derived from the intracellular pathogen is a function of protein presentation to the host.
- Antigen presentation encompasses a group of variables that determine how a recipient processes and responds to an antigen. These variables can include, but are not limited to, adjuvants, vaccine component concentration, carrier molecules, haptens, dose frequency and route of administration.
- the present inventors have demonstrated that identical antigens compounded differently will result in statistically significant response variations in genetically similar hosts. For example, two vaccine preparations of the 30 kDa extracellular protein of M. tuberculosis were compounded using the same protein and adjuvant concentrations. One group of guinea pigs was administered a vaccine containing only the 30 kDa protein and adjuvant; a second guinea pig group was administered the same vaccine as the first except that IL-12 was added to the second vaccine. When the mean immune responses of both groups were compared, the guinea pigs receiving the vaccine plus IL-12 demonstrated a statistically significant superior immune response.
- the present invention describes the union of two technologies, one known for over eighty years, the other a product of the 1990's. Together, they represent an entirely new and surprisingly effective approach to presenting intracellular pathogens' extracellular proteins to recipients and inducing remarkably robust protective immune responses thereto.
- the present inventors have attempted over 100 different antigen presentation methods using the extracellular proteins of mycobacterium tuberculosis as an exemplary intracellular pathogen. However, in spite of the many successes realized by the present inventors, none had induced an immune response superior to that seen using the BCG vaccine alone.
- the present invention includes vaccines for intracellular pathogens using attenuated, or avirulent, recombinant intracellular pathogens (the “vaccinating agent”) that express and secrete recombinant immunogenic antigens of the same, another species, or both (the “immunogen(s)”); the vaccinating agent and immunogen(s) are referred to collectively as the “vaccines” of the present invention.
- the vaccines are administered using one or more routes, including, but not limited to, subcutaneous, intramuscular, intranasal, intraperitoneal, intradermal, oral, or inhalation.
- the vaccinating agents of the present invention survive within the recipient expressing and secreting the immunogen(s) in situ (status).
- the present inventors have proposed that the immunogenic antigens of opportunistic pathogens such as Legionella sp. can illicit protective immune responses with greater ease than similar immunogenic antigens of more traditional animal pathogens such as mycobacterium sp.
- Selective pressures may have afforded pathogens such as Mycobacterium sp., that co-evolved with their natural hosts, immune evading mechanisms that incidental, or opportunistic, pathogens lack. Consequently, significantly more powerful vaccinating agents and immunogens must be developed to elicit protective immune responses against pathogenic Mycobacteria than those required to elicit protective immunity against pathogens for which humans are not a primary host.
- the present inventors have previously demonstrated the extracellular proteins from the opportunistic intracellular pathogen Legionella sp. affords animals significant immune protection when administered in purified form or in cocktails using either complete or incomplete Freund's adjuvant. (See U.S. Pat. No. 5,108,745, which is incorporated herein by reference.)
- attempts to obtain similar protective immune responses using M. tuberculosis extracellular proteins under similar conditions have not been as successful. Consequently, the present inventors have proposed that over-expression of extracellular non-fusion proteins may be an important aspect of antigen presentation and the development of protective immune responses.
- the over-expression of non-fusion immunogenic extracellular proteins may be one important factor in eliciting protective immunity, it is not believed to be the only immunostimulatory factors the vaccines of the present invention provide.
- the present invention is ideally suited for preparing highly effective immunoprotective vaccines against a variety of intracellular pathogens including, but not limited to BCG strains over-expressing the major extracellular non-fusion proteins of M. tuberculosis, M. bovis or M. leprae.
- Each vaccine of the present invention can express at least one immunogen of various molecular weights specific for a given intracellular pathogen.
- the present inventers have previously identified M.
- tuberculosis immunogens that can include, but are not limited to, the major extracellular proteins 12 kDa, 14 kDa, 16 kDa, 23 kDa, 23.5 kDa, 30 kDa, 32A kDa, 32B kDa, 45 kDa, 58 kDa, 71 kDa, 80 kDa, 110 kDa and respective analogs, homologs and subunits thereof including recombinant non-fusion proteins, fusion proteins and derivatives thereof.
- the major extracellular proteins 12 kDa, 14 kDa, 16 kDa, 23 kDa, 23.5 kDa, 30 kDa, 32A kDa, 32B kDa, 45 kDa, 58 kDa, 71 kDa, 80 kDa, 110 kDa and respective analogs, homologs and subunits thereof including recombinant non-fusion proteins, fusion proteins
- fusion proteins are defined to include, but not limited to, the products of two or more coding sequences from different genes that have been cloned together and that, after translation, form a single polypeptide sequence.
- Antigen expression is generally enhanced when genes encoding for recombinant non-fusion proteins are located on, and under the control of, one or more plasmids (extrachromosomal DNA) rather than integrated into the host genome.
- protein expression driven by promoter sequences specific for a particular protein provide enhanced expression and improved protein folding and processing of non-fusion-protein antigens. Therefore, the present invention provides recombinant extracellular non-fusion proteins encoded on extrachromosomal DNA that are controlled by non-heat shock gene promoters or non-stress protein gene promoters, preferably protein-specific promoter sequences.
- the present invention provides recombinant attenuated intracellular pathogen vaccinating agents such as rBCG that express their own endogenous extracellular proteins in addition to recombinant extracellular non-fusion proteins of closely related and/or other intracellular pathogens.
- rBCG recombinant attenuated intracellular pathogen vaccinating agents
- BCG's endogenous extracellular proteins alone do not provide complete protection in all recipients.
- the present inventors have also demonstrated that merely co-injecting M. tuberculosis extracellular proteins along with traditional BCG does not result in vaccines superior to BCG alone.
- the vaccine includes a recombinant BCG vaccinating agent expressing only one immunogen, for example the 30 kDa major extracellular protein of M. tuberculosis.
- the recombinant BCG may express two or more immunogens, for example the 23.5 kDa and the 30 kDa major extracellular proteins of M. tuberculosis. This latter embodiment may be particularly effective as a vaccine for preventing diseases in mammals.
- the present inventors have proposed the non-limiting theory that the simultaneous over expression of the 23.5 kDa and the 30 kDa major extracellular proteins of M.
- tuberculosis by a recombinant BCG may act synergistically to heighten the mammalian protective immune response against the intracellular pathogens of the present invention.
- This theory is partially based on the observation that wild-type and recombinant BCG are deletion mutants of M. bovis that do not naturally express their own 23.5 kDa major extracellular protein.
- the present invention will be more specifically described using a recombinant BCG as the vaccination agent and M. tuberculosis extracellular non-fusion proteins, specifically the 30 kDa major extracellular non-fusion protein, as an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. It is understood that any recombinant immunogenic antigen may be expressed by any recombinant attenuated intracellular pathogen, and that the vaccines of the present invention are not limited to BCG as the vaccinating agent and the major extracellular non-fusion proteins of M. tuberculosis as the immunogens.
- BCG Tice and BCG Connaught Wild-type M. bovis BCG Tice was purchased from Organon and wild-type M. bovis BCG Connaught was obtained from Connaught Laboratories, Toronto, Canada.
- the strains were maintained in 7H9 medium pH 6.7 (Difco) at 37° C. in a 5% CO 2 -95% air atmosphere as unshaken cultures. Cultures were sonicated once or twice weekly for 5 min in a sonicating water bath to reduce bacterial clumping.
- Recombinant BCG TICE (rBCG30 Tice) expressing the M. tuberculosis 30 kDa major extracellular non-fusion protein was prepared as follows.
- the plasmid pMTB30 a recombinant construct of the E. coli /mycobacteria shuttle plasmid pSMT3, was prepared as previously described by the present inventors in Harth, G., B.-Y. Lee and M. A. Horwitz. 1997. High - level heterologous expression and secretion in rapidly growing nonpathogenic mycobacteria of four major Mycobacterium tuberculosis extracellular proteins considered to be leading vaccine candidates and drug targets. Infect. Immun. 65:2321-2328, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
- plasmid pMTB30 was engineered to express the M. tuberculosis Erdman 30 kDa major extracellular non-fusion protein from its own promoter (or any non-heat shock and non-stress protein gene promoter) by inserting a large genomic DNA restriction fragment containing the 30 kDa non-fusion protein gene plus extensive flanking DNA sequences into the plasmid's multi-cloning site using methods known to those skilled in the art of recombinant DNA technology.
- the plasmid was first introduced into E. coli DH5 ⁇ to obtain large quantities of the recombinant plasmid.
- the recombinant E. coli strain which was unable to express the M.
- tuberculosis 30 kDa non-fusion protein was grown in the presence of 250 ⁇ g/ml hygromycin and the plasmid insert's DNA sequence was determined in its entirety.
- the plasmid was introduced into M. smegmatis by electroporation using 6.25 kV/cm, 25 ⁇ F, and 1000 m ⁇ as the conditions yielding the largest number of positive transformants.
- the present inventors verified the presence of the recombinant plasmid by growth in the presence of 50 ⁇ g/ml hygromycin and the constitutive expression and export of recombinant 30 kDa non-fusion protein by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and immuoblotting with polyvalent, highly specific rabbit anti-30 kDa non-fusion protein immunoglobulin using methods known to those skilled in the art of recombinant DNA technology. Additionally, the inventors verified the correct expression and processing of the recombinant M. tuberculosis 30 kDa non-fusion protein, which was indistinguishable from its native counterpart by N-terminal amino acid sequencing.
- the recombinant pSMT3 plasmid pMTB30 was subsequently introduced into M. bovis BCG Tice using 6.25 kV/cm, 25 ⁇ F, and 200 m ⁇ as the optimal electroporation conditions.
- Transformants were incubated in 7H9 medium supplemented with 2% glucose for 4 h at 37° C. in an environmental shaker and subsequently plated on 7H11 agar with 20 ⁇ g/ml hygromycin. The concentration of hygromycin was gradually increased to 50 ⁇ g/ml as the transformants were subcultured to a new growth medium.
- Recombinant BCG Tice cultures were maintained under the same conditions as the wild-type except that the 7H9 medium contained 50 ⁇ g/ml hygromycin.
- FIG. 1 a shows the expression of the M.
- tuberculosis 30 kDa major extracellular non-fusion protein by recombinant BCG Tice on SDS-PAGE gels and immunoblots.
- the recombinant strain expressed much more of the M. tuberculosis 30 kDa major extracellular non-fusion protein than the wild-type both on Coomassie blue stained gels and immunoblots.
- FIG. 1 b shows the expression of the M. tuberculosis 30 kDa major extracellular non-fusion protein by recombinant BCG Connaught on SDS-PAGE gels and immunoblots.
- the recombinant strain expressed much more of the M. tuberculosis 30 kDa major extracellular non-fusion protein than the wild-type both on Coomassie blue stained gels and immunoblots.
- Plasmid stability of recombinant strains of BCG was assessed biochemically. This biochemical analysis demonstrated that in the presence of hygromycin, broth cultures of the recombinant BCG strains maintain a steady level of recombinant non-fusion protein expression over a 3 month growth period. In the absence of hygromycin, the same cultures show only a slight decrease of non-fusion protein expression (on a per cell basis), indicating that the recombinant plasmid is stably maintained and only very gradually lost in bacteria growing without selective pressure (FIG. 1 a and FIG. 1 b , lane 3).
- recombinant BCG strains expressing the M. tuberculosis 32(A) kDa major extracellular non-fusion protein, 16 kDa major extracellular non-fusion protein, 23.5 kDa major extracellular non-fusion protein, and other M. tuberculosis major extracellular non-fusion proteins can be prepared.
- similar methodologies can be used to prepare recombinant BCG strains expressing M. leprae major extracellular non-fusion proteins including, but not limited to the M. leprae 30 kDa major extracellular non-fusion protein homolog of the M.
- tuberculosis 30 kDa major extracellular non-fusion protein (a.k.a. Antigen 85B), the M. leprae 32(A) kDa major extracellular non-fusion protein homolog of the M. tuberculosis 32(A) kDa major extracellular non-fusion protein (a.k.a. Antigen 85A), and other M. leprae major extracellular non-fusion proteins.
- similar methodologies also can be used to prepare recombinant M. bovis BCG expressing the M. bovis 30 kDa major extracellular non-fusion protein homolog of the M. tuberculosis 30 kDa major extracellular non-fusion protein (a.k.a. Antigen 85B), the M.
- the vaccines of the present invention are tested for safety and efficacy using an animal model.
- the studies utilized guinea pigs because the guinea pig model is especially relevant to human tuberculosis clinically, immunologically, and pathologically.
- the guinea pig a) is susceptible to low doses of aerosolized M. tuberculosis ; b) exhibits strong cutaneous DTH to tuberculin; and c) displays Langhans giant cells and caseation in pulmonary lesions.
- M. tuberculosis a
- b) exhibits strong cutaneous DTH to tuberculin
- c) displays Langhans giant cells and caseation in pulmonary lesions.
- tuberculosis develop active disease over their lifetime (half early after exposure and half after a period of latency), infected guinea pigs always develop early active disease. While guinea pigs differ from humans in this respect, the consistency with which they develop active disease after infection with M. tuberculosis is an advantage in trials of vaccine efficacy.
- the immunization inoculums made in accordance with the teachings of the present invention were prepared from aliquots removed from logarithmically growing wild type or recombinant BCG cultures (the “bacteria”). Each aliquot of bacteria was pelleted by centrifugation at 3,500 ⁇ g for 15 min and then washed with 1 ⁇ phosphate buffered saline (1 ⁇ PBS, 50 mM sodium phosphate pH 7, 150 mM sodium chloride). The immunization inoculums were then resuspended to a final concentration of 1 ⁇ 10 4 colony forming units per ml in 1 ⁇ PBS and contained 1,000 viable bacteria per 100 ⁇ l.
- tuberculosis 30 kDa major extracellular non-fusion protein (r30), 100 ⁇ g in 100 ⁇ l Syntex adjuvant formulation (SAF), three times three weeks apart (time 0, 3, and 6 weeks); SAF consisted of Pluronic L121, squalane, and Tween 80, and in the first immunization, alanyl muramyl dipeptide; and 4) SAF only (100 ⁇ l) (Sham-immunized), three times three weeks apart (time 0, 3, and 6 weeks). An additional group of 3 animals was sham-immunized with SAF only (100 ⁇ l) and used as a skin test control. These and three to six other sham-immunized animals served as uninfected controls in the challenge experiments.
- SAF Syntex adjuvant formulation
- guinea pigs were shaved over the back and injected intradermally with 10 ⁇ g of purified recombinant M. tuberculosis 30 kDa major extracellular non-fusion protein (r30) in 100 ⁇ l phosphate buffered saline. After 24 hours, the diameter of erythema and induration was measured. (A separate group of sham-immunized animals from the ones used in the challenge studies was used for skin-testing. Sham-immunized animals used in challenge studies were not skin-tested to eliminate the possibility that the skin-test itself might influence the outcome).
- mice were challenged with an aerosol generated from a 10 ml single-cell suspension containing 1 ⁇ 10 5 colony-forming units (CFU) of M. tuberculosis.
- CFU colony-forming units
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis Erdman strain ATCC 35801 was passaged through outbred guinea pi to maintain virulence, cultured on 7H11 agar, subjected to gentle sonication to obtain a single cell suspension, and frozen at ⁇ 70° C. for use in animal challenge experiments.
- the challenge aerosol dose delivered ⁇ 40 live bacilli to the lungs of each animal.
- the airborne route of infection was used because this is the natural route of infection for pulmonary tuberculosis.
- a large dose was used so as to induce measurable clinical illness in 100% of control animals within a relatively short time frame (10 weeks).
- guinea pigs were individually housed in stainless steel cages contained within a laminar flow biohazard safety enclosure and allowed free access to standard laboratory chow and water.
- the animals were observed for illness and weighed weekly for 10 weeks and then euthanized.
- the right lung and spleen of each animal were removed and cultured for CFU of M. tuberculosis.
- the rBCG30-immunized animals had 0.5 log fewer organisms in the lungs and nearly 1 log fewer organisms in the spleen than BCG-immunized animals.
- LSD Tukey-Fisher least significant difference
- administering induced high level protection against aerosol challenge with M. tuberculosis in the highly susceptible guinea pig model of pulmonary tuberculosis.
- administration of the same mycobacterial extracellular non-fusion protein does not induce high level protection against aerosol challenge with M. tuberculosis; nor does administration of recombinant M. smegmatis expressing the M.
- tuberculosis 30 kDa major extracellular non-fusion protein nor does administration of the M. tuberculosis 30 kDa major extracellular non-fusion protein in microspheres that are of the same approximate size as BCG and like BCG slowly release the proteins over 60-90 days; nor does administration of the M. tuberculosis 30 kDa major extracellular non-fusion protein encapsulated in liposomes.
- a very surprising aspect of this invention is that the rBCG30 strain induced protection superior to wild-type BCG even though the wild-type expresses and secretes an endogenous highly homologous 30 kDa major extracellular protein. (See FIG. 1 ).
- the gene encoding the 30 kDa protein from substrain BCG Connaught has not been sequenced. However, the sequence of the 30 kDa protein of two other substrains of BCG, deduced from the sequence of the cloned gene of these substrains, differs from the M. tuberculosis protein by only one amino acid (BCG Paris 1173 P2) or by 5 amino acids including two additional amino acids (BCG Tokyo).
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- M. tuberculosis Animals Immunized with Live Recombinant M. smegmatis Expressing the M. tuberculosis 30 kDa Major Extracellular Protein (r M. smegmatis 30) Lung CFU Log 10 Spleen CFU Log 10 n (Mean ⁇ SE) (Mean ⁇ SE) Sham-immunized 9 6.63 ⁇ 0.27 6.34 ⁇ 0.29 BCG 8 4.61 ⁇ 0.14 4.31 ⁇ 0.27 M. smegmatis Control 9 5.92 ⁇ 0.31 5.29 ⁇ 0.34 r M. smegmatis 30 9 5.48 ⁇ 0.26 5.55 ⁇ 0.28
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- tuberculosis 30 kDa Major Extracellular Protein (r30) Lung CFU Log 10 Spleen CFU Log 10 n (Mean ⁇ SE) (Mean ⁇ SE) Sham-immunized 9 6.31 ⁇ 0.19 6.20 ⁇ 0.26 BCG 9 5.35 ⁇ 0.14 4.81 ⁇ 0.21 rBCG30 9 4.48 ⁇ 0.14 3.73 ⁇ 0.33 Control Microspheres 9 6.67 ⁇ 0.29 5.94 ⁇ 0.32 Microspheres with r30 6 6.10 ⁇ 0.32 5.93 ⁇ 0.41 (10 mg ⁇ 1) Microspheres with r30 9 6.42 ⁇ 0.17 6.04 ⁇ 0.28 (3.3 mg ⁇ 3) Control Liposomes 9 6.24 ⁇ 0.23 6.41 ⁇ 0.21 Liposomes with r30 9 5.77 ⁇ 0.18 5.63 ⁇ 0.16
- Example 1 demonstrates that when the immunogens of the present invention are administered with, but not expressed in vivo by BCG, a high level of protective immunity is not achieved.
- Example 2 demonstrates that the in vivo expression of the immunogens of the present invention using a Mycobacterium sp. closely related to BCG, but unable to replicate in mammalian hosts, fails to induce significant levels of protection against challenge with M. tuberculosis.
- Examples 3 and 4 demonstrate that the slow release of the immunogens of the present invention by synthetic vaccine microcarriers also fails to induce significant levels of protection against challenge with M. tuberculosis.
- the vaccines of the present invention represent an entirely new approach to the therapeutic and prophylactic treatment of intracellular pathogens.
- the present inventors have thoroughly demonstrated that protective immunity is only achieved when a precisely selected intracellular pathogen, or closely related species, is transformed to express recombinant extracellular proteins of the same or different intracellular pathogen in accordance with the teachings of the present invention.
- the present invention can also be used to provide prophylactic and therapeutic benefits against multiple intracellular pathogens simultaneously.
- a recombinant attenuated intracellular vaccinating agent like M. bovis can be designed to expressed immuno-protective immunogens against M. tuberculosis and Legionella sp. simultaneously. Consequently, great efficiencies in delivering vaccines could be accomplished.
- the non-limiting examples of recombinant BCG expressing the major extracellular proteins of M. tuberculosis not only serve as a fully enabling embodiment of the present invention, but represent a significant advance to medicine, and humanity as a whole.
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